Announcements:
Pulaski Chapter Update
November 3, 2025
Greetings Compatriots,
The next meeting of the Pulaski Chapter is Tuesday, January 20, 2026 – the meeting will be in the Pulaski Room of the Carroll County Veterans’ Center on Stripling Chapel Road in Carrollton.
It is that time of year to renew our membership for 2026. Based on instructions from the State Secretary, I will need all payments to me no later than November 30, 2025. If you choose to send me a check for your renewal, please make sure your checks are made payable to the Pulaski Chapter SAR. If you fail to renew at our deadline, the state society will drop your membership. If you then decide to renew after the deadline, there is a reinstatement fee of $30 charged by the State Secretary for reinstatement. I have completed the necessary information for you to pay online at the GSSAR website. If you pay online, please be aware that you will be charged a service fee to use the online feature. Also, if you pay online, PLEASE send me an email, a text, or a phone call to let me know you have paid. There is no way for me to know that you paid online until I get the check from the State and that may take several weeks. Thus, I will continue to contact you to remind you that payment is due to keep your membership active. Also please keep in mind that postage is .78 cents per letter and this cuts into the Chapter finances as we must buy more stamps. Take a few minutes now, write a check, and mail it to me. Renew online if you wish, but send me a text, an email, or call me to tell me you renewed online. I will appreciate your help with the notification.
Dues for 2026 are $100.00 per regular member. Junior members are $10.00 per junior member. You must be under the age of 18 during the calendar year 2025 to qualify as a junior member. For new members that are not sure if you need to pay 2026 dues - Look at your membership certificate, if you were approved for membership prior to September 1, 2025 you will need to pay the $100.00 as a regular member, or the $10.00 as a junior member – if you qualify by age. If you were approved, based on the date on your certificate, after September 1, 2025, you do not pay dues for 2026. If you are not sure what you need to pay to keep your membership active, please call me, text, or email me.
As we approach the holiday season there are several events in which we are invited to participate.
The October Chapter meeting was the last meeting for the year 2025. The November meeting will be the annual Thanksgiving/Christmas observance with the Abraham Baldwin Chapter DAR. The December meeting will be the annual Christmas Dinner with the Sweetwater Chapter of the DAR.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM, our regular meeting night, we will join the Abraham Baldwin DAR Chapter for a Thanksgiving/Christmas Dinner at Sutton’s Restaurant in Carrollton. This will be a prepaid meal. The cost of the meal at Sutton’s will be $27.50 per person. The $27.50 will cover the meal, the meeting room, dessert, nonalcoholic beverages, tax and gratuity. All Pulaski members are invited along with your guest as well as members of the Sweetwater DAR and the James Stewart DAR Chapters. A head count of those attending will need to be turned into Sutton’s by Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Please RSVP to Mike Campbell with a check payable to Pulaski Chapter SAR for $27.50 per person, and in the memo section write DAR/SAR dinner. Mail your check to Mike Campbell - (my address is in the Signature Section of this email, or contact me if you need to Venmo your payment).
The Sweetwater DAR Chapter has announced that the Pulaski Chapter is invited to join them for a Christmas Season Luncheon at the Olive Tree Restaurant in Hiram, Georgia on December 6, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The cost of this meal is $30.00, and you should mail a check to Sweetwater Chapter Treasurer Brenda Christian. Contact information for Brenda: 770-262-1176; 4723 Waverly Walk, Douglasville, GA 30135. Contact Brenda if you need to make payment arrangements.
Pulaski Chapter members who are interested in joining the Pulaski Chapter Color Guard and need to purchase a uniform so you may participate in the historic celebration of our country’s 250th Birthday on July 4, 2026, you have an opportunity to meet the uniform supplier for the Georgia Color Guard and the Pulaski Chapter Color Guard much closer than Lexington, Kentucky. Stephen Caudill will be present at the Carolina Revolutionary War Weekend and Battle Reenactment on Saturday, November 8 and Sunday November 9 in Kershaw, South Carolina. The hours will be Saturday, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Sunday 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
With our next in-person Chapter meeting being after Christmas and New Year, Chapter members need to consider Chapter officers for 2026. Please come prepared on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 to nominate someone for a Chapter Officer position, or to volunteer for a position - placing yourself in nomination. Nominations will be accepted from the floor prior to voting. Your absence from the meeting is the best way to get nominated.
The current slate of officers are as follows:
Current President – Jim Swinson – Nominee needed
Current Vice President – Chad Word – Nominee needed
Current Secretary/Treasurer – Mike Campbell - Nominee needed
Current Chaplain – Jim Rowell - Nominee needed
Current Registrar – Jim Swinson - Nominee needed
Current Historian/Webmaster – Greg Goggans - Nominee needed
Current Sergeant-At-Arms – Steve Jones - Nominee needed
Color Guard Commander – David Johnson has been nominated
Nominations accepted from the floor at the Tuesday, January 20, 2026 Meeting prior to voting. Voting for officers will be at the Tuesday, January 20, 2026 Meeting. Pulaski Chapter Annual Meeting for Induction of Officers for 2026 will be Saturday, February 21, 2026 for a luncheon.
Thank you,
Mike Campbell
Secretary/Treasurer
Pulaski Chapter SAR
770-832-2389 (H)
770-826-4585 (M)